Food choice vs blood pressure

in ASEAN HIVE COMMUNITY18 hours ago (edited)

About a week ago, I was diagnosed with a serious issue where my blood pressure is no longer OK, and I was forced on medication before I can leave the medical facility. Blood pressure control medication is one fo the thing that I will NEVER agree of. I am not a qualified medical personnel, so I am just going to save up a 500,000 words thesis here explaining my opinion about why suppressing blood pressure without changing lifestyle is a regression equation. It fix the problem temporary, but sooner or later, the solution become a bigger problem.

I'm not going to pretend I know a lot, but these are the facts that we live here, we tell the stories in this country. Malaysia is a multi racial, multi cultural, multi ethnics hybrid breeding ground. I'm not referring to interracial marriage(despite it's happening more than I can imagine), I am referring to cultural and food recipe wise. As we all agree, food that taste good are usually demonic 😈 we get to enjoy and explore every good food from a different ethnicity, sometimes(I think more than often) we cross breed good food from different cultural backgrounds. I just realized, why would I eat Dim Sum with mayonnaise as condiments 🤣

Human desire is one of the worst Satan living within our mind, it's in our heart, our brain, and in our soul. When we wanted something ever so badly, we will give trillions of excuses. We knew certain things are harmful, but the minime version of satanic me within will tell a different story.

So, here I am. I am still doing my very best to keep my Satan at bay. My ex-gurlfriend helped me up by preparing fresh fruits, vege sticks for my snacks, so I won't go for potato chips. I am also feeding myself with sweet potatoes to keep my stomach full. My only problem is on some occasion when I am needed to eat out, that's where my Satan will drive me to hell. Here's some recorded Satan wins, some partial win.

We usually go to Sunday family breakfast at the street full off indian shops. I usually order Puri at this stall because they're fluffy, crunchy and the curry potatoes mesh are freaking delicious. This time around, I went with dosai. By the book, it's not fried, so it should be less harmful compare to puri, but the chutney coconut shave, I doubt the calories is low. Milk tea without sugar, the term without sugar is a sin to someone who enjoys teh tarik 😂 anyway, I hold up to it without sugar.

Again, it's Sunday. Gotta be with the family, so we went out for lunch at the mall. Once again, milk tea ice, but without sugar. I think, I should really consider to stop having cold drinks. Without the "sweetness", it's just absolutely awkward to have this kind of cold beverages.

I know I should be ordering soup noodle instead, but I allowed Satan win. Dried noodle is so tasty because it takes a huge amount of soy sauce to seasoning it up, together with huge amount of oil to keep the noodles lubricated. Not to mentioned the amount of fried onions and the heavily processed meat paste.

Dinner with the family at the Chinese restaurant. Boiled spinach works just fine. I don't hate this kind of vege. Steamed egg is good, at least it taste better than tofu. The problem being, it has also being heavily seasoned. And the sweet and sour spicy Thai style squid, I don't even want to think about the cholesterol I'm taking in. These all happened within 1 day all day eat out. My weight shot up from morning before breakfast 79.6kg to 82kg the next day woke up😂

I know the idea of who am I kidding. My body is the only host I've been clinging on my whole life. If I don't take care of it, who else will? Lunch with client, decided to go with noodle soup. Not the best I know, having soup meaning I can avoid drinking it.

One of the day, full day vege. By late noon, I was too hungry. Stopped by one of the restaurant around the housing area, kaya butter toast, half boiled eggs and a cup of tea to satisfy hunger. Once again, not the healthiest but it's slightly less "processed".

Do you guys eat half boiled eggs? Some said the texture make them feel like vomiting. For me, it's just the raw form of mayonnaise 🤤 goes well with my toast bread.

Here I am. Back to basic. Boiled vege, fried fish, and a bowl of celery soup and fish balls. This is considered on of the healthiest kind of lunch I can find within my budget. Still, this took away RM13 from me. If I get a plate of mix rice, it will most probably set me back less than 10 and way more filling.

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A coincidence I was just telling someone today that I didn't eat half boiled eggs my family ordered because they were too runny.

It's really healthy that you are avoiding sugar. I suggest checking how much bread you consume as it's carbs and affects insulin resistance and somehow affects the pressure too indirectly. My father also had border diabetes reading and high blood pressure, but it improved greatly after reducing bread intake. The doctor reduced his pressure medication dose too.

I hope yours too will improve and become normal someday. Take care.


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Ditto to the runny half boiled eggs, perhaps 70% boiled would work? 😂 I only prefer the yolk to be slightly runnier.

You're also absolutely right about the bread. I wanted to do Keto, but again am worry of my weak kidneys if they can sustain such diet. Nevertheless, I've been cutting down simple carbs and processed food altogether.

I hope your healthy is improve

Well, I suggest you to avoid any fried food. Also, avoid chicken noodle. For breakfast, you cat eat boiled food.

It works for me couple years ago when my blood pressure was bad

But the important thing is walking! Try to walk fast and your heat beat above 100 bpm.

And, sleep good is the key! In the past I was in horrible blood pressure because I only sleep around 4-5 hours only ehehe

Now everything changed! My body weight also normal now

Boiled food seems like a good suggestion. I will take note on that. I'd like to try long sleep, but that probably takes more effort to adjust as I have kids to send to school, and my sleep time is hardly going to be early due to many house chores as well. Lemme see if I can arrange to finish my day job earlier so I can finish my workout a little earlier for me to sleep longer.

As for workout, I have always been active and 150 minutes cardio a week. I usually goes to zone 2 around 130bpm walk. Weekend I will also do incline walk by the hill to hit 150bpm for 15mins twice. May be I should increase my volume.

Thank you for the wonderful suggestions.

Oh my, blood pressure usually comes to us when we get older, we have a habit of eating, so why is it that even with high blood pressure we can't eat what we want, that's why our brain works to eat the things we don't want. We can't get rid of the reality that we need to avoid it because it's bad for our health, so we should limit it.

Theoretically you're all correct. In reality, there's only 1 way to avoid that, meal prep 😂 which I lack of the discipline to prepare my lunch box to work.

What matters is that you’re aware, reflecting on your choices and adjusting where you can.😀

I am that naughty boy, which I'm aware of bad food and still eating it 😂